how to pass parameters from VB to a CR 8.5 report

I need to make a report of sales and what I do is to make teh report in CR then add the CR control to a form in VB and tell the control the ibucation from the file and the database. But my problem is that I need yo generate this report based on a range of day that I should enter from the program. how can I send this range to the report or how can I send some SQL statement from runtime?

You can sort of send a SQL statement to the report using the ReplaceSelectionFormula. Here is the syntax in VB:

crpt.ReplaceSelectionFormula ("{db.field} = '" & txt.text & "'")

crpt is the name of the crytal report control on your form.
db is the name of the database table.
field is the field name you are referring to.
txt.text is what you are trying to look for in the table.

Basically, this report will only show the data where field is equal to the text entered in txt...

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